Web Accessibility

General Information

In the development of this website, Division of Engineering Computing Services at MSU has worked towards adding a significant number of accessibility features to improve basic menu navigation and labeling in order to provide a simple and effortless navigation experience for all visitors regardless of the browser or adaptive equipment he or she is using.

Long-term, we will continue to research and implement solutions that bring the MSU Web top-level pages to the usual exemplary level in the areas of accessible and universal design.

For assistance with the content and function of this site, please use the 'Contact Information' link at the bottom of every page. Persons using assistive devices should contact the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities for assistive technology assistance.

Accessible Features in Drupal Content Management System (CMS)

We have built this site with Drupal 8, a content management system. Drupal 8 provides more semantic HTML5 elements which assistive technology will be able to leverage. Drupal CMS has extended this further by adding WAI-ARIA landmarks, live regions, roles and properties to encourage and support the proper use of semantic markup. For more information see Drupal 8 Accessibility Features: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/accessibility/drupal-8-accessibility-features

Browser and Device Guides

This site CSS uses relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers. If you need to change the text size in your web browser, see the following browser support pages:

Links and Images

Necessary links were assigned 'TITLE' attributes to describe the target in greater detail. Users of assistive technology may wish to set screen reader options to take full advantage of this feature.

Images used in this site include a descriptive 'ALT' attribute. Those images which are purely decorative or used for layout include a null 'ALT' attribute.

Tables

Screen reader table functions within screen readers may be used on this site. The tables are properly coded to take advantage of these functions. Example: Using JAWS in Internet Explorer, use Control - ALT - Right Arrow to properly read a table with table headers.